The Wilmingtonian., 1887-01-08
ADVERTISING RATES,
sATUKDAY, JANUARY s, 1857.
India and ihe United states.

Transportation Routes to the Seaboard. in
making bis report touched upon the interest
ing question of the competition ofIndia with
the United States for the grain trade of Eu.
rope.
In regard to the grain producing countries
Of the old continent upon whom Europe re-
lies for breadstuffs Russia still retains the
second lit is understood that the United
states Is the largest importer of grain to Eu.
rops) and Germany the third but the rapid
change in eleven years OF British India fl ON
she thirteenth position to the fouith is the
most noticeable feature Of the su m nary. In
the next decade G ,rmany will be practically
out of the race aud it is more than probable
that India will contest with the United States
for the first position. Important facts are
brought out in regard to ocean tialspolta-
tiou and the comparative cost of freight
brought from India, Russia and United
States to Great Britain and table is Viyen
showing in comparison the lat.s Of freight
70: cereals during Sefi,s of years from the
three principal ports of British Ind ia the great
northern and southern ports Of Russia, and
the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United
States to Great Britain
OF this table the committee says THE
general fact and the ole Of greatest impor-
tance to the United States is the steady de-
cline in the cost of transportation, and the
probability that, with increased freight to
carry, the rates between Europe and the
most important and nearest ports of Iudia
(Kurrachee and Bombay will continue to
decline.
Should this tendency continue it viii not
be long before tho cost of carrying wheat
from India to continental 1surup- aud ,se
United Kingdom will be as low as between
our Atlantic ports and those markets,
or course this will be So and that without
shadow Of doubt. A, d for the est of ar.
Euments.
In the fist place the Ind au railways both
trunk and branch lines are almost if not en-
tirely In the hands of the British govern
ment' That G vc'nnent does not run"
those roads primarily for the purpose of
making big dividends. On the contrary a
schedule of agricultural rates is established
~ the Government, not by syndicates or
pools, which rates are openly advertised and
exactly known by every farmer and grain
groser from the llimalayas to Cape Com.
orin aud from Calcutta in the East to Guzer-
at In the West. The schedule Of ira ffc rates
snot allowed 10 be suddenly changed nor
moddled with. The obscure farmer il, the
interior can calculate the exact cost of send.
ing his grain to the seaboald. He can make
that calculation when he sows bis grain and
he Ia assured that sudden raise of freight
rates, just after he has threshed his grair. is
not soin< to be announced. The Irdian
railways are worked at the closest figures in
the direction Of aiding aud developing aori-
cnItur' IN the Peninsula. The expenses are
reIstiT' ly light Railway stock and .crio
watering is not allowed with government
railway dsbcntur1s So there are 10 heavy
dividends TO be pa d d-uo dividends outside
those representing the 6ond .fdc capital exist
ing
There is no need then for scheduling hipb
grain rates. The farmer IS d erefure sore
This one Of the main reasons for India iump-
ing from the thirteenth in grade Of grain i'm
porterS to EmoIe To the probable first
place.
Again, India, as Il wheat neld i ,ply n
her infancy. With her cheap and nnttam-
msled railway service, which viii concnr.
rentlS cheaper still ~ ne rs the grain traffic
increases, II is only qu te probable that
another decade viii see lnda's wheat export
trade doubled, probably qnadIupled.
The So Canal 10 NJ on rhe direct route
Indian tr .iliC alone q de hat / nd rtak.
bg one The best paying inyestm It, in
the world. And there Is no doubt
that the grain traffic aloas the ,aual
from kurrachee B 'mbay, Madra,. and Cal
cutts to Liverpool will IN few years be as
phenomenal as that 'twixt New Y,ik and
the last mentioned English port.
1t Is freedom from the Vaccinations. med
ding, rings and pools, carried en- by men
like Jay Gould-the strong hand of the row.
ernment protecting tue grain raiser--tbat
sends a railway -interseeted country lik. In.
dia booming to the front rauk as the ,iebest
agricultural territory OF the word.
Jay Gould ami hi, myrmidons hold our
greater, aud naturally richer county back.
throttling her, with his hand ever npnu her
throat, squeezing at every oppurtuni,,--a
iArnt final harriar 81 ,l